After Ms. Ragin left, Dr. Levin said that, unlike acute pain, which has a purpose, as when you touch a stove, "chronic pain is not adaptive".
I'm inclined to think of cultures as evolving over fairly long periods of time, accumulating information, some of it adaptive, some not adaptive.
If a church becomes an interesting place to socialize, dine, exercise, why not?" Adaptive reuse, as the process is known, can be daunting.
"Carnivores have stormed the capital, and this city is nothing if not adaptive," the article continued, citing the popularity of Smith & Wollensky, Nick & Stef's and Angelo & Maxie's.
The dangling form of the jellyfish, for example, is not adaptive in itself but is simply the result of placing a relatively dense but amorphous substance in water.
The fact that Pavlovian conditioning may result in apparently maladaptive behaviour in the artificial confines of the experimental psychologist's laboratory, however, does not mean that it is not adaptive in the real world.
They acknowledged that some features are obviously not adaptive in some respects: in human beings, for example, walking upright causes chronic pain in the lower back, and the size of the infant's head relative to that of the birth canal causes great pain for females giving birth.
The OMP algorithm is not adaptive.
Of course, Facebook is nothing if not adaptive.
But the company is nothing if not adaptive.
